Got Lucky Twice Yesterday.

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Went riding up in the hazleton, Jim Thorpe area yesterday and got lucky twice. Those of you that've seen those coal hills that've been posted thats the kind of area we were riding.

 

Picture all those hills with snow covering them making it even harder to go up. The one hill we just couldnt seem to make it up and you could turn off before you had to commit (slopes to either side of the path at the top 1/3 of the hill).

 

Well right before you had to commit there was an ice patch that you'd lose your momentum on and would have to turn off. The one time I thought I had enough to make it......and didnt. Where I got stuck at, noone could get to me to help, and luckily the weight of my shee would break through the snow (my weight wouldnt). So I got off it and slowly started backing it down, keeping my feet in the broken tracks. I was on the right side holding my front brake and using the rear one with my hand when I had to. Well needless to say I got to where that ice patch was and my shee stopped breaking through the ice and we both started sliding. Only thing I could do was cut the wheel and hopefully spin the shee around while it was still ice and manhandle it the rest of the way. Next thing I new I was still holding onto the front brake, but I was in front of my shee, with it now facing down the hill, meanwhile still sliding at like 10-15 mph. I manhandled it to a stop finally....got my senses together and rode it back down the rest of the way.

 

Before this I was hitting a dune top style jump that makes you feel like your in the air forever, and spun out a little when I gave it gas at the top causing me to nosedive, I landed all crooked and instead of rolling it I bailed and pushed my shee to keep it from rolling.....right into a small tree. Luckily it was small enough that the tree moved and didnt bend anything on my shee.

 

And then on a small side note, I went to do a 180 roost through a snowdrift on the side of a small pretty steep hill, and it was icy and bucked me off right into the side of the hill, and my thigh right into my kickup on my footpeg. Bent my brake lever handle down pretty bad....

 

Needless to say I'm pretty sore, but it sure was worth it to hit those hills, and to rip down through the usually kinda rutty, puddled, rocky trails (lots of smooth parts as well), that were covered in that icy crust type cover that you hook up on pretty good, with about an inch or two of powder on top of it......like 4th and 5th gear pinned.

 

6th gear donuts on ice are pretty fun too.

[Cotton eyed Joe]

Sounds like you had fun though.

There are some dunes here that once you "commit" which is basically going up 3 feet, if you get stuck its too steep to turn around safely. You either have to try to spin your way up the hill, or tea bag the bars, lock the front brakes, and feather the rear until you are more towards the base.

I've been going at least 20mph down those very dunes with all 4 wheels locked, forward of course, but it still took a tractor to yank the seat out of the crack of my ass.

[banshee0044]

sounds like uve been having fun but three accidents in one day is messed up lol...sounds like u got money to keep fixing ur shit...have fun man and be safe

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yeah.....if it breaks....you fix it, and ride on. I'll ride with a bent brake lever, I'll just adjust it up so it feels normal. Dont want to bend it back to far and break it. Eventually I'll get a new one.

 

I know what you mean stan, theres some hills like that up here, you get up some of them and theres no easy path down except the way you came up. Bout shittin yourself half way down with no way to stop. They were too covered in snow to hit

 

I just got lucky yesterday. If I would of lost it when the shee spun around it would've rolled 20-30 maybe even 40 times. It wouldnt of been pretty.